Each Instrument has over 10,000 samples, 38 articulations and 4 different legato transitions. Unique phase align techniques enable perfect X-fade blending between up to 8 dynamic layers. Play from smooth & soft to screaming loud with completely natural sounding transitions, all without artefacts or phasing.

Choose from a staggering 102 different attack shapes per note using the unique Note Head function, all with just a single fader. Two on-board convolution reverbs allow you to design the body of the instrument and the performance space itself. The DSP effects rack gives unlimited power to process the string sound, from soundtrack-ready to other-wordly.

Chris Hein Solo Strings Complete include:

Chris Hein Solo Violin delivers outstanding, detailed and highly expressive results in all relevant genres ranging from classical music and film scores to gypsy-jazz, folk and pop ballads.

Chris Hein Solo Cello is a bundle of two fantastic sounding Solo Cello Instruments. The two instruments in CH-Solo Cello have exactly the same features, but a completely different sound.

Chris Hein Solo ContraBassoutshines all previous Contrabass libraries. Never before, a sample library of this extent has been dedicated towards a single string instrument.

All Solo String instruments included in Chris Hein Solo Strings Complete benefits from producer Chris Hein’s 30 years spanning experience in the field of sampling and library production, resulting in a products that offer highest versatility, configurability and practical use.

Unique functions

Perfect dynamic transitions thanks to phase alignment

Over a research period of several months, all samples have been fully aligned in phase. Accordingly, the instrument offers perfect seamless transitions of dynamic layers without sonic degradation.

Unique combination of short and long notes

The combination of long and short notes is a major problem in sample-libraries that often fail to deliver authentic sounding results. With real musical instruments, the note length often influences the attack behavior as well as the note end. Chris Hein – Solo Strings Complete addresses these aspects by its “Note Head Designer” which has been significantly expanded for this library. Each instrument offers a selection of 102 attack shapes. This allows calling up twelve matching short sample variations (Shorts) along with each sustain-articulation. These shorts not only offer the corresponding correct attack-behavior but also a note-end that perfectly matches the note length.

These user-defined selections of short-note-variations are available in eight dynamic layers each and can be combined with the corresponding sustained phases, leading to astonishing realistic results that cannot be achieved using random round-robin based selections. Of course, the shorts are also available as individual articulations.

True Legato

Chris Hein – Solo Strings Complete offers true legato in up to four dynamic layers for short and long note variations. The corresponding in-depth recordings and edits result in unexpected realistic sounds with perfect note-transitions. At the same time, it is possible to combine these realistic combinations with additional artificial inserted legatos.

Library extend

The performance-data of Chris Hein – Solo Strings Complete directly reflect the immense investment in recordings and configuration possibilities. Every instrument builds upon almost 10,000 single samples, 38 articulations and up to eight dynamic layers. This makes the library one of the most in-depth sampled Solo Strings currently available.

The custom-tailored user-interface of the Kontakt Player not only offers numerous functions to adapt the library’s sound character and articulations but also provides immense configuration choices to live up to specific demands and workflows. At the same time, due to pre-programmed key-switch-presets at the lower part of the keyboard, the library can also be effectively played without any need for deep edits. Thanks to four “Dynamic Modes”, the “Note-Head Designer”, “Key-Vibrato”, “Hot-Keys” and the revolutionary concept of articulation-presets, the user-interface will give you the impression to really play this instrument live.

Rinascimento features 3 bowed string instruments, 2 brass instruments, 8 reed instruments, 5 recorders of different sizes, 2 other kind of flutes, 7 kind of lute instruments (with a auto-strumming engine), 5 percussion, harpsichord, virginal, a positive organ and a complete organ with 10 registers. All the non-polyphonic instruments feature full sustained legato transitions and staccato and there is a special and unique scripting engine for some complex instruments like the hurdy gurdy, the percussion, the organ or the lutes.

Chris Hein Solo Viola

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Chris Hein – SOLO VIOLA outshines all previous Viola libraries.

Never before, a sample library of this extent has been dedicated towards a single string instrument: Recorded with greatest care and endless details, precisely edited and merged into a practical and musical instrument for NI’s Kontakt Player offering an elaborated custom-tailored user-interface with comprehensive scripting. Chris Hein – Solo Viola features high-grade sound quality and incredible realistic articulations. This library offers everything you have been missing with previous virtual string instruments.

You receive over 10,000 samples (4 gigabytes of sample data), 38 articulations, four different legato transitions as well as extensive phase-alignment of all samples to guarantee smooth inaudible crossfades of up to eight velocity layers. This feature-set allows the creation of authentic Viola-arrangements unprecedented on a computer.

Chris Hein – Solo Viola delivers outstanding, detailed and highly expressive results as a solo instrument or as part of an ensemble – in all relevant genres ranging from classical music and film scores to gypsy-jazz, folk and pop ballads.

Chris Hein Solo Cello

Never before, a sample library of this extent has been dedicated towards a single string instrument: Recorded with greatest care and endless details, precisely edited and merged into a practical and musical instrument for NI’s Kontakt Player offering an elaborated custom-tailored user-interface with comprehensive scripting. Chris Hein – Solo Cello features high-grade sound quality and incredible realistic articulations. This library offers everything you have been missing with previous virtual string instruments.

You receive over 24.000 samples (9,5 gigabytes of sample data), 38 articulations, four different legato transitions as well as extensive phase-alignment of all samples to guarantee smooth inaudible crossfades of up to eight velocity layers. This feature-set allows the creation of authentic cello-arrangements unprecedented on a computer.

Chris Hein – Solo Cello is a bundle of two fantastic sounding Solo Cello instruments. The two instruments in CH – Solo Cello have exactly the same features, but a completely different sound.

· „Modern Cello“ has a hifi sound with extreme dynamic and a precise and clear tone.

· „Romantic Cello“ has a more warm and rich sound. You can hear the old and noble wood.

Chris Hein – Solo Cello delivers outstanding, detailed and highly expressive results as a solo instrument or as part of an ensemble – in all relevant genres ranging from classical music and film scores to gypsy-jazz, folk and pop ballads.

Each Instrument has over 10,000 samples, 38 articulations and 4 different legato transitions. Unique phase align techniques enable perfect X-fade blending between up to 8 dynamic layers. Play from smooth & soft to screaming loud with completely natural sounding transitions, all without artefacts or phasing.Choose from a staggering 102 different attack shapes per note using the unique Note Head function, all with just a single fader. Two on-board convolution reverbs allow you to design the body of the instrument and the performance space itself. The DSP effects rack gives unlimited power to process the string sound, from soundtrack-ready to other-wordly.

Unique functions

Perfect dynamic transitions thanks to phase alignmentOver a research period of several months, all samples have been fully aligned in phase. Accordingly, the instrument offers perfect seamless transitions of dynamic layers without sonic degradation.

Unique combination of short and long notesThe combination of long and short notes is a major problem in sample-libraries that often fail to deliver authentic sounding results. With real musical instruments, the note length often influences the attack behavior as well as the note end. Chris Hein – Solo Strings Complete addresses these aspects by its “Note Head Designer” which has been significantly expanded for this library. Each instrument offers a selection of 102 attack shapes. This allows calling up twelve matching short sample variations (Shorts) along with each sustain-articulation. These shorts not only offer the corresponding correct attack-behavior but also a note-end that perfectly matches the note length.

These user-defined selections of short-note-variations are available in eight dynamic layers each and can be combined with the corresponding sustained phases, leading to astonishing realistic results that cannot be achieved using random round-robin based selections. Of course, the shorts are also available as individual articulations.

True LegatoChris Hein – Solo Strings Complete offers true legato in up to four dynamic layers for short and long note variations. The corresponding in-depth recordings and edits result in unexpected realistic sounds with perfect note-transitions. At the same time, it is possible to combine these realistic combinations with additional artificial inserted legatos.

Library extendThe performance-data of Chris Hein – Solo Strings Complete directly reflect the immense investment in recordings and configuration possibilities. Every instrument builds upon almost 10,000 single samples, 38 articulations and up to eight dynamic layers. This makes the library one of the most in-depth sampled Solo Strings currently available.

The custom-tailored user-interface of the Kontakt Player not only offers numerous functions to adapt the library’s sound character and articulations but also provides immense configuration choices to live up to specific demands and workflows. At the same time, due to pre-programmed key-switch-presets at the lower part of the keyboard, the library can also be effectively played without any need for deep edits. Thanks to four “Dynamic Modes”, the “Note-Head Designer”, “Key-Vibrato”, “Hot-Keys” and the revolutionary concept of articulation-presets, the user-interface will give you the impression to really play this instrument live.

Chris Hein – SOLO STRINGS COMPLETE includes:

· Chris Hein – Solo Violindelivers outstanding, detailed and highly expressive results in all relevant genres ranging from classical music and film scores to gypsy-jazz, folk and pop ballads.

· Chris Hein – Solo Cellois a bundle of two fantastic sounding Solo Cello Instruments. The two instruments in CH-Solo Cello have exactly the same features, but a completely different sound.

· Chris Hein – Solo ContraBass*outshines all previous Contrabass libraries. Never before, a sample library of this extent has been dedicated towards a single string instrument.*The Contrabass will be released in January 2017 and will be delivered subsequently

Capturing the sound of a Hollywood-style string section seated in position, CSS was recorded meticulously in a world-class scoring stage, and is the first instalment in our forthcoming Cinematic Studio Series. While CS2 gave you a full concert hall sound, with the new series we’ve opted for a more versatile Hollywood studio sound that will be suited to an even wider range of applications. The series will feature the entire orchestra including piano (also out now), solo strings (out soon), brass, woodwind and percussion.

CSS boasts stunning true-to-life dynamics, a wide variety of articulations, and a remarkably realistic legato engine. The combination of beautiful ribbon and condenser microphones, recorded at three mic distances, gives the library a lush and versatile sound out-of-the-box. At the heart of CSS is our intuitive and efficient GUI with its short-but-sweet patch list, easily assignable keyswitches and MIDI CCs, and a full mixer with output routing options and reverb.

With its incredible blend of authenticity and playability, and at the very affordable price of $399, you can have CSS working alongside you on your latest project in no time!

For the first month, we are giving 50% off our new piano library, Cinematic Studio Piano, as a bonus to purchasers of CSS. CSP was recorded in the same space with the same techniques and is designed to blend seamlessly with the strings. The usual price of CSP will be a very low $69. Both libraries available now for Kontakt and Kontakt Player.

Packing a heroic 670MB in 24-bit high definition quality, with over 150 professional percussion and orchestral loops and 40 one-shot samples specifically crafted for cinematic perfection!

In the mood for making a heart-moving cinematic soundtrack?! Look no further than Cinematic Moods – the spirited sample pack crammed full with dramatic melodies and strong harmonic build-ups with the type of epic feel sought for by cinematic Music Supervisors the world over!

Follow the footsteps of award-winning composers Hanns Zimmer and James Newton Howard with a mesmerizingly bold collection of orchestral loops featuring booming choirs and then move in perfect synchronicity onto developing sensitive scores with light-hearted, minimal compositions as perfected by composers such as Thomas Newman, Philip Glass and Steve Reich.

Packing a heroic 670MB, Cinematic Moods comprises a story-building library, each evoking a different mood. Choose from over 150 separate brass, percussion, strings, piano and orchestral loops and 40 one-shot samples specifically crafted for cinematic perfection in 24-bit high definition quality! Making their grand entrance to the heart of your DAW via direct download, these fearless samples will sync with your mix automatically – all you need to do is select your desired sample from the download folder, click and drag it towards whichever major piece of software you work with, and drop that file right into the mix.

To prove that we’ve got love for you, we’re giving this one to you completely royalty free, so don’t worry about feeling down about those sample clearance forms. Get started with Cinematic Moods and prepare your acceptance speech for best movie soundtrack!

You can buy now, and download anytime

Bundled Products

CHAMBER STRINGS – VOLUME I

Our finest chamber strings library volume one; violins and cellos playing essential articulations. Small can be beautiful, ultra detailed and delicate. Part one of a band of 16 players (4,3,3,3).

CHAMBER STRINGS – VOLUME 2

The world’s finest chamber strings library volume two; 2nd violins, violas and basses playing essential articulations. Small can be beautiful, ultra detailed and delicate. Completing (with volume 1) the must-have tools to write for a string band of 16 players (4,3,3,3).

CHAMBER STRINGS – VOLUME 3

The world’s finest chamber strings library part three, playing extended articulations and additional techniques. Small can be beautiful, ultra detailed and delicate with our band of the sixteen (4,3,3,3) top British session musicians and concert players.

CHAMBER STRINGS – VOLUME 4

Sable Volume 4 features more additional and extended techniques and articulations from our small handpicked chamber band (4,3,3,3,3) of top London players using rarefied instruments in the hall at air studios via a world-class signal path onto 2″ tape.

CHAMBER STRINGS – ENSEMBLES

This unique mixed and compiled together as a quick compositional tool for both hands. A cherry picked selection of the most popular, beautiful and celebrated articulations from the Sable range, tirelessly re-mixed and baked for CPU lite use. An excellent tool for “deep users” an excellent intro for those yet to try this extraordinary range of chamber sized strings. With full dynamic, vibrato and round robin control.